Geoffrey Beene Quotes
Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
Quotes to Explore
-
While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
-
Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
-
If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
-
As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
-
We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
-
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
-
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
-
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
-
I look forward to working alongside Univision's exceptional team as we work to further realize the substantial growth potential of this dynamic organization.
-
I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
-
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
-
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
-
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
-
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
-
In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
-
I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
-
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.
-
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.
-
I just love engaging a live audience - I love that.
-
Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.
-
Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
